Guantanamo Bay 'coming to Xbox 360'

Glasgow developer T-Enterprise is developing a new Xbox 360 video game based on life in the US detention camp of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, it has been reported.

Following his release from the campground in 2005, former detainee Moazzam Begg has agreed to take the starring role in the game, entitled Rendition: Guantanamo.

Players will take on the character of a prisoner at the facility after it has been sold by the American government to a mysterious firm called the Freedom Corp.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, 41-year-old Begg revealed that he was hesitant at first to get involved because it could have trivialised his experience.

However, he decided to go ahead with the project to ensure that it is "as true to life as possible".

"My wife gave birth to my son six months after I was arrested and I saw him for the first time when he was three-years-old," he said.

"This game will not demean the reality of Guantanamo but will help to bring those issues to people who would not usually think about it."

T-Enterprise director Zarrar Chishti told the newspaper that the firm has already received "hate mail" about the game, most of which concerns not portraying deaths of any US soldiers.

However, he assured that "no US or British soldiers get killed" in the title, rather the main enemies will be "mercenaries".